OK, so Jurgen Klopp’s men finally lost — but their rivals should not be celebrating just yet.
Liverpool have still got a brilliant chance of putting themselves in the history books like Manchester United did in 1999, by winning the Treble.
Shearer reckons Liverpool’s loss to Watford will help them as they can now focus on the Treble
They were battered by Watford, all over the pitch, but what can happen now is they can use it as a positive in terms of the cup results. It could just spur them on.
Klopp’s side are not going to lose the Premier League, they’ve won that, it’s just a matter of time.
Now they can forget about being Invincibles, they can forget about the pressure of winning the record number of games on the trot.
They can concentrate on doing what United did and win all three of the Prem, Champions League and FA Cup.
It’ll be interesting to see what team Klopp puts out tomorrow night against Chelsea in the FA Cup.
I understand their priority is to win the Prem but being just four wins from the title, it’s going to happen.
He could play the big guns tomorrow, rest two or three against Bournemouth on Saturday and be ready again for the Champions League round of 16 second leg next week against Atletico Madrid, where they are a goal down.
I’ve seen the Arsenal tweets, congratulating Liverpool on a great run and another saying “phew”. It’s slightly tongue in cheek!
Given how brilliant this Liverpool team are, it just goes to show what an incredible achievement that was by Arsenal in 2003-2004.
To go the whole season unbeaten is unbelievable, and likely to never be done again.
You’ve got to appreciate how difficult it is for any team to churn out results week-in week out, when everyone’s talking about it, when things are not quite going for you, then you’ve got to find that extra gear to go again.
STAGGERING LIVERPOOL
Every Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday — put all the travelling in that. That is so, so tough to maintain.
However, let’s put things in perspective, that’s only two league games Liverpool have lost in almost two seasons.
It’s a measure of how brutal, how brilliant, how dominant Liverpool have been. It’s staggering.
Their performance against Watford was totally out of character. It’s quite normal to have one, two, three maybe even four players off form — but to have every single player have an absolute nightmare, that’s very rare.
We haven’t seen that at all, the sloppiness, the laziness. The three up front never had a kick, you couldn’t even tell they were on the pitch.
The result is a blip, they are an unbelievable team with a fantastic manager. They’ll be back and potentially a bigger threat in those cups.
The good thing when you have a battering like that, you have a game so soon after. You don’t want to stew on that for a week.
They’ve got a great chance on Tuesday to get another win, a big win and make a statement in the FA Cup.
Jurgen Klopp reacts to Liverpool’s first Premier League defeat in 44 matches
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
